On 12/04/2005 11:05, Tor Lillegraven wrote:
> I also tend to use DB for quickie demos, but I have also gone all the way to do full-fledged productions with it. And I`m all for being able to export seperate drum parts -- it would really make a huge difference for me.
I haven't gone the separate drum tracks route (yet), and I kinda dig the
"mic the virtual kit" approach, but I definitely see the utility of
being able to turn given drums on or off for playback. I could easily
see some check boxes next to drum sounds (or groups of drum sounds) in
the kit window when editing so you could "mute" given things on playback.
Ultimately, I think it would be cool to see DB have the ability to
output multichannel sound so you could run, say, multi-channel Firewire
audio out of your Mac, through your multi-channel audio interface,
whence you split out different regular audio cables to run to the
mixer/board/whatever just as if they were coming from individual drum
mics. But that's probably more complicated to sort out than simply
muting given drums on or off for playback!
Cheers,
Carl
ps - I use a woodblock sound to provide a click track to help me play in
time on recordings during sections without drums, and I then go back to
overdub a version of the dbsong from which I've erased the woodblock
clicks -- but that's as much as I've done with turning drums on or off
the hard way!
pps - Oh, I did finally get around to slaving DB to my recording deck
(instead of vice versa) using MIDI/MMC, and it works *great*. I can
swap drum tracks in and out from under other instruments now without any
trouble syncing things up. Fab :)
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Carl Edlund Anderson
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